1. German Society of Cardiovascular Engineering (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiotechnik, DGfK), Coswig, Germany
2. German Society of Cardiology, Düsseldorf, Germany
3. German Society of Paediatric Cardiology, Düsseldorf, Germany
4. German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nürnberg, Germany
5. German Interdisciplinary Association of Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Berlin, Germany
6. German Society of Medical Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Berlin, Germany
7. German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Berlin, Germany